Principal Engineer, Software Development Excellence

Job Summary
The Principal Engineer provides technical leadership to advance software engineering excellence for softwarecentric Class II medical device products. This role defines and scales best practices frameworks patterns and standards that future teams will use enabling highquality compliant development within FDAregulated and IEC 62304aligned environments.
Working in a crossfunctional matrixed organization this role partners with software systems hardware quality regulatory and product teams to ensure development practices support patient safety fault tolerance maintainability and longterm product quality. By championing modern rightsized practices and tools the Principal Engineer sets the standard for how the organization builds safe reliable and innovative products.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Define document and evolve software development best practices templates and workflows aligned with IEC 62304 and applicable FDA guidance.
Ensure architectural principles are reflected in everyday development practices through close collaboration with software architects and senior engineers.
Promote frameworks tools and processes that enhance patient safety fault tolerance robustness and maintainability.
Design and scale Agile practices that balance iterative delivery with design controls and verification needs.
Drive effective use of tools (e.g. Jira Azure DevOps GitHub) for planning traceability reviews and controlled change.
Define and track engineering and Agile metrics (e.g. velocity cycle time lead time defect trends) to inform decisions.
Use metrics to identify bottlenecks reduce risk and continuously improve predictability and quality.
Coach engineers and technical leads on Agile methods Git workflows and DevOps pipelines with appropriate quality controls.
Partner with crossfunctional teams to translate safety risk and system requirements into practical engineering workflows.

What Success Looks Like
Software teams consistently apply best practices that support patient safety and product reliability.
Agile execution improves delivery predictability without sacrificing quality or rigor.
Metrics show reduced risk smoother flow and higher software quality over time.
Products demonstrate strong fault tolerance maintainability and engineering excellence.
Hardware software and systems teams collaborate more effectively with clearer expectations and aligned timelines.
Organizational processes become more robust and rightsized driving efficiency and value.

So why join Hologic

We are committed to making Hologic the company where top talent comes to grow. For you to succeed we want to enable you with the tools and knowledge required and so we provide comprehensive training when you join as well as continued development and training throughout your career. We offer a competitive salary and annual bonus scheme one of our talent partners can discuss this in more detail with you.

If you have the right skills and experience and want to join our team apply today. We cant wait to hear from you!

The annualized base salary range for this role is $155000 - $210000 and is bonus eligible. Final compensation packages will ultimately depend on factors including relevant experience skillset knowledge geography education business needs and market demand.

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